Another Side, Another Story (EPIC | P)

[Wolf of the Falls]

As the blackness faded from the witch she would find herself in a violet void spanning forth in all direction. A purple moon hung in the sky and fragments of stone floated around the area. The light sound of tapping echoed through the void as if the sound was directly by the witch's ear as it drew her attention behind her.

There upon an ebony throne sat a woman with thick blue hair drawn into braids with metal looking rings on the ends, her eyes shone with pale blue energy while her skin was so pale it had became a purple hue. Her skin clad in scraps of violet cloth encased by shards of ice that held to her skin like scales on a dragon. Her posture and gaze were filled with an air of strength that bellied the vulnerable look she may present as he very air around her turned to a frosted mist.

"Who are you, why do you enter the tomb of Mateus?" The woman's voice seemed to chill time itself as her lips moved slow. She held no enmity in her tone while her gaze followed the witch that had entered her world.

Madame Loki

[Madame Loki]

Loki looked around as she seemed to be transported to a different plan of reality altogether. She folded her arms, "Of course... you'd really think I'd learn. Last time I fooled around with a weird old statue thing, I got jumped through time. Just par for the course I suppose." Loki turned around when she heard the voice of another in this place. As she turned she saw the source of all of this, it was rather plain really. Loki could feel the cold radiating off of her. She started to walked towards her and then said, "Tomb? So Mateus died then? How unfortunate. But I assume you are the Consort the story detailed? As I thought you didn't just disappear, you purposefully vanished. To protect him?"

Loki didn't expect an answer she was mostly thinking out loud and would try to gauge the beings reactions. As sh got closer she said, "I am Loki Senri-LeFaye. A witch, a keeper of balance. I am here because your power is leaking out into the world, and is becoming quite unstable. If not rectified, the land you rest on will be frozen over in months maybe a few years at the most. Eventually the world will follow."

[Wolf of the Falls]

The woman regarded the witch as she spoke her thoughts aloud not having any intention of answering shots in the dark while she came closer. Though with each step Loki would feel the temperature drop 10 degrees. As she told the woman what had been happening she watched her as if waiting for the point that was supposed to come. When she finished, the woman clad in ice would close her eyes for a moment before meeting those of the witch.

"What of it? I have no love for the world of mortals, that wretched place and the gods that governed it cast down my Mateus without a second thought." While the woman's expression didn't change her words felt like they would slice straight through steel if given the chance. "Why shouldn't I let the world of light be overcome by cold and dark."

[Madame Loki]

"Really? Hmm... I won't lie... I expected a male god to be petty, did not expect that from a Goddess." It was a bit disappointing to Loki, and she folded her arms as the cold seemed to increase the closer she got to this Goddess of ice Loki let out a sigh, "I've notice something about... you gods. The more I meet... the more human they seem to become. Yes you have no love for the world of mortals, I'm not fond of them myself. Humans are... petty, selfish, lying, short sighted specks of dust. But most of them are trying to be better. They fail but they're flawed it's to be expected. And yet they still try." Loki let her hands drop to her side, and the pointed at at this nameless Goddess.

"But you, who seems to think you're so much better than them, are behaving much the same as they do... no... worse. Your lover was betrayed, and something bad happened to them. It's a sad story, it really is, but not the only one of it's kind. Plenty of humans have experienced the same thing, the loves of their lives taken away from them. The strong ones weep, mourn... and then they pick themselves up out of the wreckage that was their lives... and. Live. It!! " Loki looked at this Consort as she placed her hand on her hip.

"The weak ones wallow in their self pity and never recover, becoming shells of themselves until they expire. That's not love, that dependency. And you look at you. Sitting here for Goddess knows how long. Wallowing in your self pity. Happy that you may get the chance to punish people who have NOTHING to do with the grief you're feeling. If you're mad at the God's for casting out your lover, using lies and deceit to turn others against him, don't sit in self pity; hoping that one day you my get back at them by mistakenly killing their pets. What kind of soft bullshit is that?!"

Loki would begin to move closer pointing her voice raising, "If you loved him... LOVE him, you wouldn't be sitting here wallowing at his tomb. You'd be planning how to take down the one that caused this in the first place, trying to clear Mateus' name. You'd be searching every plane of existence looking for a way to bring him back! You'd be doing something!!! anything but this!!" Loki turned her noise up at the goddess as she folded her arms, "That's what it mean to love. I thought he was severely injured, and you where nursing him back to health or something. But this... I don't know what you're doing."

[Wolf of the Falls]

"Hell hath no fury." The woman countered her comment about being petty while her composure didn't shift. Although as she continued on about the nature of humans the woman raised a brow, she had no anger against mortals despite her lack of love, her grudge was against the world itself and the forces within that the other gods represented.

"You do a lot of assuming for someone with Mateus' mark." the woman responded after the witch's little show. Now standing a short distance apart the air around her would feel around -10 degrees. "I don't believe myself above humans, they're as any other creature, just louder than most. Their experiences are theirs and they act as their hearts dictate. Neither am I 'wallowing', as you put it, creatures with finite time are the ones that rush, those who are timeless plan. Your views are yours and not the law of the world, neither are mine."

With those words the woman would stand, a head taller than the witch as a gossamer sheet of ice feel along side her right leg just as fluid as cloth. Layers of ice slowly spread out under her feet on the layer of invisible energy they stood on. "I will get revenge for what they did to him, we both will once he is ready. Being betrayed isn't so bad when you're cold, but he wasn't he was gentle and caring, that betrayal broke him in ways I can't understand."

For the first time, sorrow spread across the woman's face while a small sphere of ice fell from her face to the ground. "Don't presume to know the love I hold for Mateus, your views are your own. I've never left his side, even now, this is another plane where we exist at this moment. You may have noticed a lack of connection to anything in your plane." (can't feel hiraishin markers or the mental links)

As the woman walked past the witch, a layer of frost would coat her arm, though it would flake off moments after without the continued cold. From the ebony throne a black shadow like tether fell from the small of the woman's back connecting her. After passing Loki she would turn back to look at her after regaining her composure. "From what you say I take it you're here about my ice rather than any reason related to my love."

"If you can heal him and destroy the light, we will leave your plane." The woman bowed her head in respect, truly not finding any sort of being higher than another. "However, if you tricked my safety measure to attack us, it will be a harsh battle to come..."

In truth she would rather not fight a potential enemy but after the things that had happened she would not allow light to continue it's reign.

[Madame Loki]

"If I wanted to kill either of you. I would have attempted already. And I'm not concerned about being disconnected from my plain. Being sent back in time was far more of a inconvenience" Loki looked at this Goddess of ice, and folded her arms. "I'm here for both actually. The ice is why I came... this story is why I stayed." Loki looked over her shoulder at the ice Goddess. "Gentle and Caring huh?" Loki asked not really looking for an answer. That was a problem, as his state of mind could be going in any direction if that was the case. Loki was much the same when she was young. But after multiple betrayals, she stopped trusting, she looked after only herself, and her wants and desires. It took her a while to over come that. But for a god such things were always so drawn out, it could be 100s maybe 1000s of years, before he found his center again.

"It will be up to you... to remind him of what he was. If the old him is how you wish him to remain. You will have to struggle and fight for him to remember who his was. Or maybe we'll just get luckily, and he hasn't changed at all, and is just a little pissed." Loki said the last bit jokingly, there was no reason too be too serious all the the time. Still looking over her shoulder she asked, "So you want me to heal him? How exactly? I know healing magic, but will that be enough? Also... what am I suppose to call you? Your name as been lost to history."

[Wolf of the Falls]

The woman rose a frosted brow as the witch joked about the state Mateus could be in but she knew it was not in a mocking way, rather she had higher hopes than the woman of ice. When Loki asked how she would heal him however, her gaze fell to the void. "I'm hoping your magic can return him to his true form, rather than the form which has been twisted by the darkness he governs..."

The goddess spoke softly, for the first time the witch would hear, a hope within the confines of ice. after another moment her blue eyes would meet the witch's once more. "My name is Shiva."

[Madame Loki]

"Hmm... well hello Shiva." Loki then turned her attention to the world around her and then looked back at Shiva, "So what exactly do you need me to do? Or am I just suppose figure this out as I go?" Shiva really didn't fully explain the state of Mateus' body, or if he even had a body at all. If he body just needed mending than that was a simple thing. If he needed something a little more abstract for his recovery, she was sure sh could handle that as well, she would just need a little more information than she was currently being proved. Even if that was information telling her that she would need to figure it out on her own, that would be a good enough place for her to start.

[Wolf of the Falls]

"In truth, i don't know, healing isn't a talent of mine." Shiva admitted before lifting the sheet of ice on her side before revealing a small rod of ice, roughly a foot long and 4 inches wide. After looking at it briefly she would hold it out to the witch. "Take this, it'll hep to keep it near you."

[Madame Loki]

"Hmm... thought so. Things are never easy." Loki sighed as Shiva said she had no talent for healing. Loki's Sharigan Eyes scanned the dimension she was in to try and see if there was anything there, they she could see that would help her with this task that had been set before her. Her attention was then drawn back to Shiva as she handed her an Ice Rod. Loki raised and eyebrow... "Ookaaay... but I'm I healing a body... or putting him back to together... I need something to go on." Loki said as she gripped the rod, and continued to search the area. All she knew at the moment was that she had to bring some god of darkness back to life, but apparently she was to do this through osmosis.

[Wolf of the Falls]

"Mayhap both... I trust you'll be able to tell when you get there." Shiva spoke aloud before gesturing to the witch. A small cloud of black frost would blow up around her in a way similar to how the dark energy took her before. As the energy enveloped her again she would be drawn back to her own plane.